Stem Cells

White Paper: Alternative Sources of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells (May 2005) "Monitoring Stem Cell Research" (January 2004) Embryonic Stem Cell Research (Gearhart) (April 2002) Adult Stem Cell Research (Verfaillie) (April 2002) Ethics of Embryonic Stem Cell Research (Outka) (April 2002) NIH Funding of Stem Cell Research (Baldwin) (July 2002) Early Embryonic Development: An Up-to-Date Account (Opitz) (January 2003) Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine: Overcoming Immune Rejection (Current State of Research) (Itescu) (June 2003) Stem Cell Research: Current Ethical Literature (Lauritzen) (July 2003) Stem Cell Research: Recent Scientific and Clinical Developments (Gearhart, Jaenisch, Prentice) (July 2003) Stem Cell Research: Current Law and Policy with Emphasis on the States (Andrews) (July 2003) The “Research Imperative”: Is Research a Moral Obligation? (Callahan) (July 2003) The Meaning of Federal Funding (Berkowitz) (September 2003) Administration Funding Policy: Legal and Moral Foundations (September 2003) Role of NIH and FDA (Zerhouni, McClellan) (September 2003) Role of Nongovernmental Activity(Okarma, Palmer, Pursley, Goldstein) (September 2003) Recent Developments (Ethics and Science) (October 2003) Council's Report to the President (January 2004) Seeking Morally Unproblematic Sources of Human Embryonic Stem Cells (Zucker, Landry, Hurlbut) (December 2004) Alternative Sources of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells (Council Discussion) (March 2005) Stem Cell Research Update (Schöler) (November 2006) Stem Cell Research Update and Alternative Sources of Pluripotent Stem Cells (May 2005) (Council Discussion) (November 2006)

Callahan, Daniel. "The Research Imperative: Introduction" Callahan, Daniel. "The Research Imperative: Is Research a Moral Obligation?" Gearhart, John. "Human Embryonic Germ Cells: June 2001 – July 2003" Lauritzen, Paul. "The Ethics of Stem Cell Research" Outka, Gene. "The Ethics of Stem Cell Research" Prentice, David. "Adult Stem Cells" Itescu, Silviu. "Stem Cells and Tissue Regeneration: Lessons from Recipients of Solid Organ Transplantation" Staff Working Paper: The Administration's Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Funding Policy: Moral and Political Foundations Commissioned Working Paper : Berkowitz, Peter. "The Meaning of Federal Funding" Jaenisch, Rudolph. "The Biology of Nuclear Cloning and the Potential of Embryonic Stem Cells for Transplantation Therapy " Staff Working Paper: Monitoring Stem Cell Research: The Ethical Debates Reviewed Staff Working Paper: Applications of Human Stem Cells in Research and Medicine Altered Nuclear Transfer as a Morally Acceptable Means for the Procurement of Human Embryonic Stem Cells (Hurlbut)

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